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House and Home in Modern Japan

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Description for House and Home in Modern Japan Paperback. A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artefact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This book takes the Japanese house as site and as artefact and explores the spaces, commodities and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 512 pages, 110halftones, 40line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJC; AMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 35. Weight in Grams: 770.

A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artifact, a material extension of its occupants’ lives. This book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as artifact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era.

As Japan modernized, the principles that had traditionally related house and family began to break down. Even where the traditional class markers surrounding the house persisted, they became vessels for new meanings, as housing was resituated in a new nexus of relations. The house as ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
482
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674019669
SKU
V9780674019669
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About Jordan Sand
Jordan Sand is Associate Professor of Japanese History and Culture at Georgetown University.

Reviews for House and Home in Modern Japan
In this elegantly written study, Jordan Sand traces the ‘public construction of a private sphere’ by ‘people who embraced and were served by the idea of middle-classness’ in Japan from the 1880s to the 1920s… The reader comes away impressed by the depth, scope, and carefully considered arguments of this book. House and Home is essential reading for scholars of ... Read more

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